Exams
Exam preparation, back-planned from your school's timetable
Photograph the timetable the school sent home. Every subject gets its own date and its own portion, mapped onto the chapters in your child's own books — and the evenings between now and then fill themselves in, weakest first.
From the sheet in the schoolbag to tonight’s fifty minutes
Five steps, and only one of them is yours.
The timetable goes in
A photograph of the sheet the school sent home, or the PDF they emailed. It is read as a table rather than as a wall of text, so the columns stay attached to the right subjects.
Every subject keeps its own row
Each row becomes a subject with its own exam date and its own portion — the lessons and page ranges the school actually listed, not a whole-book assumption.
The portion finds your books
Each lesson named on the sheet is matched to a chapter in your child's own library by title rather than by number — because school portions number topics, books number chapters, and those are not the same numbers.
You check it before it is real
Nothing is saved straight from the photograph. The subjects come back as editable cards — wrong date, wrong lesson, a subject your child does not even take — and only what you confirm becomes the plan.
The evenings fill in
Every evening between now and the first paper gets a short list of sessions, chosen by what is weakest and what is soonest.
In detail
Why the timetable, and not just a date
Most exam features ask for one date and a list of subjects. A school exam is not that shape. The sheet that comes home has six or seven papers on six or seven different days, each with its own portion: three and a half lessons of one subject, a chapter and two poems of another, everything up to a named heading halfway through a third.
Flatten that into “exams start on the 12th” and you have thrown away the only information that was worth having. So each subject keeps its own row — its own date, its own portion, and its own note for the parts that don't map to a whole chapter, like “up to A Map and Its Components” or a page range. That is what lets the plan put maths revision on the evening before the maths paper, rather than on the evening before exams in general.
How an evening is decided
The plan is not a fresh improvisation each time you open it. It is worked out from a handful of plain rules, and every one of them is checkable against what appears on the screen:
- Each chapter in the portion is weighed against how your child has actually done on it. Below 40 percent it still has to be learned — a 25-minute session. Between 40 and 60 it needs practice — 20 minutes. Above 60 it only needs a revisit — 12 minutes.
- An evening holds around 50 minutes of that. Inside the last three days before a paper it stretches to about 90, because that is when a child will genuinely sit for 90.
- Subjects are interleaved rather than blocked. The nearest paper goes first, then the next — so one evening is not three chapters of the same subject.
- New learning stops at least a day before the paper it is for. Nothing new is introduced on the eve of an exam.
- The evening before each paper is reserved for revising that subject, and nothing else.
Ready, per subject, from what actually happened
Each subject carries a readiness figure, and it is not a forecast. It is the average of how your child has really performed across the chapters in that subject's portion — with a chapter they have never touched counting as zero, because that is what it is worth.
The figure underneath each chapter comes from three things your child did rather than one: quizzes count for half of it, homework for a little under a third, and time with the tutor for the rest. So a child who quizzed well on a chapter but needed heavy help on its homework does not read as ready. That blend is the entire reason the number is worth looking at instead of being another green tick.
It is worked out fresh every time you open it, from the portion exactly as it stands today — so when the school changes the portion, the readiness changes with it, and you are never reading a figure from a syllabus that has moved on.
It follows your child to the front page
A study plan that lives on an exam screen is a study plan nobody opens. So inside the fortnight before a paper, that evening's exam sessions appear on your child's home screen among everything else waiting — sitting just under homework that is actually due, because homework has a deadline and revision only has a date.
Your child does not have to remember that exams are coming, go to the right screen and choose well. That is three decisions we have no business asking a twelve-year-old to make at eight in the evening.
The second-language trap
School timetables list every language option the school offers, not the one your child takes — three second languages and two third languages on the same sheet. A plan built from that sheet as printed has your child revising a language they have never studied, and quietly stealing evenings from the subjects they are actually sitting.
So the reading is given your child's own declared second and third language, and the rows that are not theirs are dropped — twice: once as the sheet is read, and again as a separate check afterwards, because this one is worth getting wrong in neither direction.
What the sheet can look like
A photograph or a PDF
The circular the school printed, or the file they emailed. Both are read the same way.
A partial portion
“Up to” a heading halfway through a chapter, or a page range, is kept exactly as it was written.
Lessons, not chapter numbers
Titles are matched to your child's books, so a portion listing “Poem: Trees” finds the chapter called Trees.
A book you do not own
A portion naming something outside the library stays on the subject as a note you can read, rather than vanishing.
Where this stops
- A subject whose portion couldn't be matched to any chapter in your child's library is never scheduled. It stays on the plan as a note you can read — an honest gap beats an invented session on a chapter we don't have.
- There are no predicted scores here and no risk alerts. We can tell you what your child has actually done against what the school has actually set. We are not going to put a number on a paper that has not happened.
- The study plan and the per-subject readiness are on your child's screen today. The parent screens show their own readiness signal rather than this one — a full parent view of the exam plan isn't built yet.
Questions parents ask
What exactly do I upload?
The exam timetable the school sent home — a photograph of the sheet, or the PDF from the email. It is read as a table, so each row becomes a subject with its own exam date and its own portion rather than one lump of text.
What if it reads the timetable wrong?
Then you fix it before it becomes anything. Nothing is saved from the photograph itself. The subjects come back as editable cards showing the date, the portion and the chapters they were matched to, and only what you confirm becomes the plan.
How does it decide what my child studies tonight?
By what is weakest and what is soonest. Chapters your child has done poorly on get a 25-minute learning session, middling ones a 20-minute practice, strong ones a 12-minute revisit. An evening holds around 50 minutes of that, stretching to about 90 inside the last three days before a paper. Subjects are interleaved by which paper comes first, new learning stops a day before its paper, and the evening before each paper is reserved for revising that subject alone.
What does the readiness percentage actually mean?
It is the average of how your child has really performed across the chapters in that subject's portion, with a chapter they have never touched counting as zero. The per-chapter figure blends quizzes (half), homework (a little under a third) and tutor sessions (the rest), so one strong quiz does not cover a chapter they needed heavy homework help on. It is worked out fresh each time you open it.
Our school's portion is 'up to' a heading halfway through a chapter. Does that work?
It is kept exactly as it was written. Partial portions, page ranges and lessons from books your child does not own stay on the subject as a note you can read. The scheduling works from the chapters it could match to your library, and what it could not match it says so rather than inventing a session.
Does it predict my child’s marks?
No. There are no predicted scores and no risk alerts. It reports what your child has actually done against what the school has actually set, and stops there.
Tonight's homework is already waiting. Tomorrow's chapter is too.
We don't teach a generic syllabus. We teach your child's.